Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Tutorial: How to repartition and increase app space MTK6582

Yet another MediaTek Android Tablet/Phone Hack

In order to repartition the MTK6582, all you need to do is refer back to the instructions written here, how to repartition MTK6572. The concept is identical, the only difference is that the MTK6582 has an EBR2, like a few other well known MTK devices. There are tutorials that you may have followed in a few forums, such as this one on XDA-Developers and a few others. The thing I noticed right away is that t MTK6582 is nothing more than an update of the MTK6572.

In terminal shell when you look at the EBR files, you will see something like, when entering in shell:

EBR2 is an extension of your internal storage's partition, so if you want to use all of your internal storage for app storage, all you need to do is change, in the scatter.txt, the section "is_download: for EBR2 from true to false, just like this:

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some one please help ive done all steps 3 times now thinking id did something wrong uninstalling everything getting mtk tools and sp flash tools from diff sites but still when i use any of the mtk6582 ebr 1 and ebr 2 ive tried 13ig 10gig and 8 gig all i just get stuck at pumpkinx octa core screen btu if i flash my original ebr1 and 2 it works just fine please some one help me fast i want to play games and actually download appon this phone but it only allows me 1.5 gig for apps wich i nee just 2 gig to download vainglory any one ive tried all different ways in sp flash tools trying all diff ebr but only stock ones work